> What is your opinion on reversing highly optimized compiled high level code vs reversing manually written assembly code, starting from the resulting binary ?

> What is your opinion on reversing highly optimized compiled high level code vs reversing manually written assembly code, starting from the resulting binary ? I don't want to do reverse-engineer either but I'd rather read the human written and compiled asm code. It's a little but not much better. I might read (and write) some assembly source code for fun, but I would not read the binaries so I'm going to stay away from this project.